Elder Merrill's Current Address

Monday, February 18, 2013

Philippines Baguio Mission - soon to split

=)President Monahan says hello. He also says that he misses Orem, he lived there for a short time.

Our internet connection is really bad. Really bad. Sorry

We had a good week though. Yesterday we had inspired planning. We were sitting in the home of a less active member and the Stake Young Woman President walk in. She had with her the SA rep from our branch and her secretary. When they came we started our lesson and taught with them. After that lesson they asked us where we were headed and when we told them they said that was exactly where they were going. So because of our inspired planning we taught 2 lessons with our Young Womens District President. It was pretty fun.

We also found quite a few people to teach this week. We found a lot of less actives that we didn't know yet and also a lot of investigators. We went to one house that we had on a list and talked to the member who lived there. She told us she got back only one week ago from Oman. She has been abroad for almost 2 years and we showed up right when she got back. We also found another member and felt inspired to teach about temples. We started the lesson and then asked what she knew about temples. It turns out she is endowed she then talked for the next 20 minutes about how she used to go to the temple and about how she wants to go back. She committed herself that she needed to get back to church and get back to the temple. We literally didn't do any teaching. We just started the lesson and she did the rest. That was a Spirtualy inspired topic for our meeting that day. We contacted another less active who had surgery last month. No one in the branch and come to visit her until us. We tried to find one less active in the branch but when we came to his home he wasn't there. We met a few of his cousins and we taught them. One of them was really attentive the whole lesson. When we pulled out a pamphlet she eagerly grabbed it. She accepted the invitation to be baptized in that very lesson and told us when to come back to meet her husband so we can teach them both. We have essentially been finding every name on the branch directory and talking to everyone and it is working out pretty good so far. We also got every member in the Elders Quorum last Sunday to sign up for a day to come with us. The next 2 weeks we always have fellow shippers. Even the District President is going to work with us. In short, we are doing alright